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If no one is home at all, you can go to your order status and print out a pre-authorization form. You leave it outside your door and they'll put the package where u tell them to. Factors play into this though. I heard some rumors that Fedex doesn't accept these forms and if you live in a not-so-good neighborhood, I wouldn't trust leaving a package outside like that.
 
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